Main Junction: ASK WHITECHAPEL -- the You Can Haz Help Now thread (Closes 21st October)

Bring us your ontological queries. Bring us your relationship problems and the courage to be laughed at. Bring us your need to know that word, y’know the one, it’s on the tip of your tongue, what the fuck is that word, oh god oh god.Bring us your yearning for solutions to mathematical dilemmas, beer-related uncertainties, genitalia-piercing indecision and demands for perspective. Bring us embarrassing questions regarding the removal of blunt objects from nether regions – it’s for a friend, honest – and bring us probing global challenges about How Those Other Guys Live.

Well, I don't know what it's about but this site has loads of images of things stamped onto euro notes:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/wasmyweb/ebt/fotogallery/stempels_klein.htm

with links to eurobilltracker.com, which makes me think it's maybe some sort of tracking thing, like putting rings on birds. Or maybe they're just discussing what it is too. Little of it seems to be in English.

Oh, I just noticed the "english" link at the top. Apparently they're put on by money changers once they've verified it's a real note. That's about the least exciting theory I can imagine... :(

If you search for "red eagle on 50 euro" you should be able to find the same stamp as in your image.

All of a sudden I'm going to Melbourne for work this weekend. In between various commitments I'm going to have most of Saturday free. What would you recommend as must sees for an introverted nerd visiting your fair city for the first time in 20 years?

(I'm staying near Albert Park and will be relying on public transport to get around)

A friend of mine had a simple meme that I'm trying to recreate as a Tumblr post: The NIN Pretty Hate Machine relationship test. The concept is simple - there are 10 songs on Pretty Hate Machine (first release). You and your potential partner each total up how many songs you personally identify with on the album. Then you compare scores to determine the percentage likelihood of your relationship being doomed.

Unfortunately, I don't understand stats. There are two potential dimensions of analysis: ratio, and points. If you have a PHM score of 1 and your partner has a PHM score of 10, that's a .1 ratio and easy to express. However, if you identify with 5 and your partner identifies with 5, compared to a couple where both identify with 10, those are both 1.0 ratios. So the total score should also factor in as a dimension of analysis - a 10/10 PHM score with 20 PHM points total is MUCH more doomed in a Sid and Nancy way than a 1/1 score and 2 points total.

I'm completely drawing a blank on how to express this properly in a simple easy to understand Tumblr level scale. The Doomedness depends on both the ratio and the point score. I'm guessing I really need to do it as a graph or scatter chart?

@Fin - Seems to me that the simple way would be to use a graph where one axis is the ratio number, and the other is the number of tracks. The relationship score could be displayed as a rectangle on the graph bounded by those two numbers; the bigger the area, the doomedier it is. (There's a name for this sort of area-comparison chart, but I can't quite think what it is.)

However...

Isn't there a third variable here? If Person A likes 5 tracks, and Person B likes 5, should we not be taking into account the overlap of those two numbers? If both A and B identify with the same five tracks, that seems a potentially very different situation to if they each identify with a different half.

This quantity ("collisions"), equal to the number of tracks appearing on both A and B's lists, could be shown by intensity of the rectangle's shading.

So the worst case scenario for a PHM visualization would be a perfect square (ratio 1, score 10) of pure black (10 collisions).

#blindwritersBit of an odd one. I'm trying to find writers who were blind early enough to not have visual metaphor in their style, so putting more emphasis on the other senses when they describe the world.To be clear I'm trying to find blind writers rather than just blind characters written by sighted writers imagining how blind people experience the world.

I'm plannng a trip to India next february. Current plans are to fly to mumbai (Bombay) and head south towards the Kerala. Anybody has any recommendations and/or tips regardings things to see / to do / to avoid ?

I've spent the last couple of days attempting to learn to do a beehive or similar... just not getting anywhere (lots of videos watched, hair has been brushed out soooo many times to start again, its not clean so not that) I have really long hair but its quite fine... (and my arms ache now :-( )

Thoughts, hints, tips? Help... thinking I might just resort back to using extensions again, but was hoping to not have a ton of extra weight to cart around whilst stage managing tomorrow night :-(